A citizen gives an interview to TVE news as April 18th’s Cacerolazo (pot-banging) protest winds down in Plaza de Mayo. A sign in the background says ‘The People are Telling You: Enough!’ The interviewee complained about corruption in the country, amidst new allegations of governmental money-laundering. The turnout was estimated at one million in Buenos […]

Protestors spilling over from Plaza de Mayo into the Monserrat neighborhood. On Wednesday, June 27 there was a city-wide strike in Buenos Aires among truck drivers, sanitary workers, airline employees and others. It was led by the CGT, the General Confederation of Labor of the Argentine Republic, directed by the notoriously brutish union leader, Hugo […]

Cacerolazo on Thursday, June 8 in Plaza de Mayo. One week after middle and upper class citizens first took to the streets to protest limits on the purchase of dollars, corruption and crime in Argentina, a modest crowd of a few hundred people braved the cold to bang on pots and pans. One sign in […]